Steel side stake for cars.



No. 813,488. PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

E. I. DODDS.

STEEL SIDE STAKE FOR GAR S. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18, 1904. RENEWED JUNE 24, 1905.

consideration, I have devised a method of S PATENT OFF ETHAN LDODDS, or AVALON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PULLMAN COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

UNITED sTAg a STEEL SIDE STAKE FOR CARS.

No. 813,488. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed June 18, 1904. Renewed June 24, 1905. Serial No. 266.849.

To ("all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ETHAN I. DoDDs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Avalon, in the county of Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania, have made a new and useful Improvement in Steel Side Stakes for Cars, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an economical method of forming side or end stakes for steel or wooden cars, the said side or end stakes being produced by cutting through the flanges and webs of rolled beams of channel I or Z cross-section. By adopting the method l of manufacture described herein it becomes unnecessary to provide means for making side or end stakes as an independent or separate manufacture, it being onlynecessary to make use of well-known existing forms of steel bars or beams, fr

a side stake, showing also the scrap. Fig. 5

is a plan view of a side or end stake. Fig. 6 is a partial side elevation of a steel car having one of my side stakes applied thereto; and Fig. 7 is a vertical section of a portion of a car, taken along the line as at of Fig. 6.

By the present mode of dividing the I- beam of Fig. 1 into side stakes I make use of cuts a a and a a, which intersect each other just outside the flanges of the Ibeam. This produces side or end stakes such as are shown at s s in Fig. 3. It will be seen that a portion by this process. be thought best to remove this portion of the flange, in which case a cutting b b, as shown in Fig. 4, may be made, leaving the parts I) as scrap. If stakes of various lengths are desired, it may be found best to cut off the ends, as shown by the line 0 c in Fig. 4.

It is not necessary to confine the invention to the cutting of -beams for the purpose indicated but forms of channel or Z shape may be chosen, if preferred. Moreover, the particular angles illustrated in the drawings are not necessarily the only ones which can be chosen for carrying out the invention. So long as the cut is made through the flange and the web continuously, forming side stakes of the general character indicated, the particular angles do not come into consideration.

In Fig. 7 the part d is one of the plates forming the side of the car. The part 6 is a compression angle-piece. The part f is a tension angle-piece. The part 9 is a flying transom. The part h is a floor-plate. This figure shows the mode of attachment of the side stake s and in what manner the same flares from the top toward the bottom, as already described.

I claim as my invention 1. The method of manufacturing side or end stakes for cars from rolled beams having flanges at their opposite sides, which consists in dividing said beams by means of cuts which intersect each other just outside the said flanges.

2. The method of manufacturing side or I end stakes for cars from rolled beams having flanges at their opposite sides, which consists in dividing said beams by means of cuts which om which side or end stakes can be manufactured with little or no waste or scrap.

In the manufacture of side or end stakes for cars it is desirable to provide structures having adequate strength and the smallest possible amount of material consistent withgreat strength. I find that by making side or end stakes with suitable flanges for attachment to the various sections of the car side and constituting these side or end stakes in such a manner as to make the web portions flare from the top toward the bottom a structure fully adequate for the purpose is provided, the same being quite as strong as side or end stakes in which the web is of uniform depth or height throughout the entire length of the stake. This is true even when the uniform depth or height is equal to the maximum depth or height of the web portion of the side or end stake forming the subject of the present invention. Starting from this making side or end stakes with flaring webs, which method is fully illustrated in the drawings herewith.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of an I-beam of indefinite length. Fig. 2 illustrates an I-beam, showing the markings for the cuts. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the cuttings forming two side stakes. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of of the flange is left at the summit of the web intersect each other just outside the said point along the Web and is cut parallel to the flanges and afterward cutting off the small 1 base of the T through a portion of the Web. segment of flange at one side. i ETHA'N I DODDS 3. A side or end stake for cars, consisting l 5 of a member having a T-shaped cross-section, Witnesses:

the construction being such that the web STANLEY M. LANGDON, flares from each end toward an intermediate THOMAS WEISERD. 

